Answer:
I think it is explaining how the character has thoughts
A serpent and an elephant. It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable [unending] serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vast piles of building full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness.
Explanation:
are you sure all of the punctuations are because it sort of looks like a run on
<span>Juliet is surprised at Romeo's presence because she did not know that he was there.
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